Payment dates

Maintained schools, do not receive funding directly from DfE. Funding is given to the local authority and passed on to schools. Local authorities are given PE and sport premium funding for maintained schools in 2 separate payments.

Use of PE and Sport Premium

Schools must spend the funding to improve the quality of the PE and sport activities they offer their pupils, but are free to choose the best way of using the money.

For example, funding can be used to:

hire specialist PE teachers

hire qualified sports coaches to work with teachers

provide existing staff with teaching resources to help them teach PE and sport

support and involve the least active children by running or extending school sports clubs, holiday clubs and change4life clubs

run sport competitions or increase pupils’ participation in school games

run sports activities with other schools.

Accountability

Since September 2013, Ofsted inspections report on how primary schools spend their PE and sport premium funding.

All schools must publish details on how PE and Sports Premium Funding is spent online. For information regarding PE and Sports Premium Expenditure please download the documents below:

As a school, we continually review our sports premium expenditure by speaking to pupils and parents through surveys, questionnaires and general discussions about how the children now view sport and fitness. We also ask if there are any ways we could improve sporting events in school and whether we could attract more pupils to attend clubs after school or in their own time.

Any spending we have used for outside agencies coming to work in school have been utilised effectively so the standards we reach are sustainable in the years to come. We have to consider the fact that the funding may stop and school would need to continue this high level of sporting endeavour. Whenever possible, staff from school have been trained by outside professionals to deliver sport themselves which is of equal standard so pupils do not miss out.